This week in 2004

THE WEEK: January 25 2004

A PETITION to keep WPC Trudi Pitts in St Ives was signed by a growing number of people. THE POLICE will hold their first surgery at the Carbis Bay Tesco on Friday, January 30, between 10a.m. and noon. ST IVES MP ANDREW GEORGE added his support to a Lib Dem parliamentary motion calling on the government to say how housebound, disabled and elderly people will be able to claim their benefits and pensions after 2005 when benefits are paid into bank and post office accounts. PENWITH DISTRICT COUNCIL voted to reduce council tax discount on second homes in the district, in future allowing only a 10% reduction. CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL has commissioned the independent market research company MORI to carry out a telephone survey of Cornish residents on proposals for the rate of council tax.

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